News | National Trust opens three textile exhibitions 🪡 Journeys – Global Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection is being held at Osterley Park, Blickling Estate and Dyrham Park

Tired of waiting for a long series? I have good news! ALL THREE of my Love in Netherford series are going to be available this June. Magic! Fashion! Queer love! Perfume-making! Wit! Trips to Faerie! And lots of longing, smooching, and spice. >> geni.us/GameoH

Get on this, everyone, because the sale ends on the 15th... and, according to the website, you can get some of the many non-fiction titles for about $5 USD. #booksky

Check out Abbaetha's blackwork, #handembroidery fans

Why does every single Atlantic piece I come across boil down to "that thing that's bad? actually is good"?

I tossed Nancy Bush's Folk Knitting in Estonia into one of my many book boxes, and sometime afterward decided to pick up the sock I was making from it (Ilmar's Socks) for something to do. But now I'm at the instep and need the instructions and have no idea where the book is. 😭

Yessss finally sold the unused cartridge of laserjet ink I've been hanging onto for probably four years! I should have tried harder to get rid of it years ago because it's declined so steeply in value (the newer versions have "new chips", apparently) but better late than never.

Ever wonder why the music in Our Flag Means Death hits so hard? youtu.be/OsoFcRF022I?...

We just found out who designed this vibrant early 1910s dress! Grace Pinder who had given up her acting career in 1906 to open the dressmaking business ’Armide’, find out more here: www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/armi... #womenshistory #gracepinder #edwardianstyle #armide #historyofdress

Just got seven boxes that are a good size for books from one of the liquor stores! 🎊

Tumblr really is the crucible of culture.

Lots is terrible but let this friend play you a song at least. From the Kennicott Bible, 1476 − La Coruña (Spain), written by Moisés Ibn Zabara and illustrated by Joseph Ibn Hayyim.

Are you a historian of medicine? A U.S. historian? An AmWest historian? Are you interested in possibly using my forthcoming book, Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine in one of your courses? Can you let me know which course so I can fill out this marketing form?

It already seems like ages since I saw Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Style so a little reminder with a Norman Hartnell worn in Canada in 1967. The maple leaves would have been embroidered by one of the many women whose stories I read during my book research #RoyalCollection #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

Got an email this morning to say a piece I co-authored with Christophe Gillain is one of the most viewed articles published by Renaissance Studies. It feels hard being an ECR right now but news like this is a real boost to morale ✨. It’s open access - link below

#HillfortsWednesday One of the test pits dug by the University of Cambridge team at Wandlebury Hillfort near Cambridge You can see two more in the distance (orange fences) The base of the pit is roughly Iron Age, but the rest above is mostly 17C landscaped garden 📸 Me #archaeology #photooftheday🏺

I've done an incredible number of different moving-related things today, but the most incredible thing of all is that none of them have been packing.

On what would have been Pierre Balmain’s birthday, a bouquet of a dress. The embroidery crowds the sculpted strapless bodice but peters out as the skirt descends. Mid #1950s and lovely #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

What lies beneath is always fascinating with historic dress. Many early c19th gowns were constructed with this flap kind of front that fastened at each shoulder into the recognisable high waisted silhouette. Unusual to see it displayed in this way but very instructive #nma #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Sooooooooo amusing to me that my first day post-Fenimore is International Museum Day.

Looking forward to seeing this - but not looking forward to the fact that after extensive access to my work’s collection of British papers relating to the American Revolution, and a long historical context discussion with the production team, neither myself or my work’s archives are credited.

Celebrating #InternationalMuseumDay with a new Bluesky arrival! 🦕🥾 Welcome to Kendal Museum @kendalmuseum.bsky.social (and their questionable Victorian taxidermy) Looking for more museums and archives? 250+ listed at go.bsky.app/Ms7endH

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

Behold, the laburnum arch. At 55 metres long and more than 140 years old, the arch at Bodnant Garden is a spectacle to behold. If you want to see it for yourself, please pre-book to ensure you're able to visit.

✔️usable draft of conference paper ✔️accompanying powerpoint ✔️NINE DOLLAR amtrak to tomorrow’s boston flight anyone can sign up to tune into the @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social America 250 conference, where I’ll be presenting on Felicity www.eventbrite.com/e/remember-t...

‘Remembrances of days foregone’ All's Well That Ends Well (I, 3) The Abbey's archive is one of the oldest in England. The documents we care for, from royal charters to administrative records from the medieval monastery, chart life at the Abbey since the 10th century. #ShakespeareSunday #Time

The Devil’s Den: a lovely and folkloric dolmen that’s quite close to Avebury so doesn’t get visited as often as it otherwise might. #StandingStoneSunday

Walking Medieval Edinburgh. Thursdays 21st May, 4th June & 18th June with historian Hetty Lancaster. Free - ticketed. Take a stroll through 15th-century #Edinburgh. Starting from the Museum of Edinburgh and finishing at the National Museum of Scotland. 🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 cultureedinburgh.com/events/walki...

An f/f Regency romance based on ye olde "maiden wagered in a card game" trope but subverted in a sense (as really any Regency trope is when done with a queer couple). I'm at 42k, far enough in that I'm starting to doubt all of my plot choices and to feel like my characterization is Bad. 😩

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

A stunning #Roman amber flask, found in Aquileia, dating 1st/2nd c. AD. Aquileia's position at the end of a main amber trade route resulted in its becoming a centre for the carving and distribution of Baltic amber across the Roman Empire. 📷 Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Aquileia 🏺

I've been toting these enormous binders full of articles around with me since grad school, and now I am emptying them since I have not referred to these articles in 15 years. (I do wish I had them in pdf form Just In Case but we're talking multiple reams of paper here, I cannot sort through it.)

I choose to believe that this episode of Hacks, in which Deb and Ava have a dysfunctional time in the home of a lesbian couple, ends with "Seabird" as a reference to OFMD 2x04, "Fun & Games".

I have to go take my office stuff out of my car so I can put garbage and recycling in it to go to the transfer station, and ... I just don't wanna.

This cameo intaglio portrays Julia, the daughter of Titus. The engraved aquamarine is signed by Evodos. The radiating frame is populated by 9 sapphires and 6 pearls. It was added in the early C9th. It’s a truly striking item. 🕰️C1-2nd AD 🏛️📷 Bibliothèque Nationale 🇫🇷

Daily sketch 🌅🌕🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? I'm pretty proud of this one 😎 #art #artsky #ink #sketch

Spending time in a fantasy world through a lovely daydream is guaranteed to be more enjoyable than any skiing trip to the Alps or fortnight in the Seychelles, it has been revealed.

Lap time ends so quickly when Clyde decides to bite my chin.

Welsh names are really interesting.

Friday night snuggles.

Post a meme made by you. 🗃️🪡

Okay, now that I am officially unemployed (temporarily), a thread of things I've learned about life and museums and jobs in general over the last seven years.

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Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...

There are so many amazing finds from prehistoric pile dwellings settlements: 3,500-year-old wooden whisks found in settlements at the Lake Carera/Italy. By rotating the shaft, it’s possible to whip cream until it turns into butter. Larger whisks were presumably used for making cheese. 🧵1/2 🏺

Last day at this job ... I have to admit, it feels very weird. There was a little going-away party for me yesterday. Later this morning I have an exit interview. I can turn my alarm off since I won't need to wake up at 5:45am anymore.

The infant Louis XIII became king #OnThisDay in 1610. The younger brothers of 16th- and 17th-century French kings could choose either to rebel or reconcile, but neither option was straightforward. 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Be sure to check out the exhibition on the Melsonby Hoard! If you can't make it, you can read the first published research on the hoards in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...